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Some Texas cities revive plans to add hospital bed capacity at convention centers if coronavirus cases climb

from The Texas Tribune

Some Texas cities revive plans to add hospital bed capacity at convention centers if coronavirus cases climb The Texas Tribune As Texas finishes a second week of record hospitalizations, some local officials are eyeing convention centers and stadiums as potential overflow facilities, reviving efforts tabled earlier in the pandemic. In Travis County, authorities have been quietly recruiting dozens of volunteer doctors and nurses to staff a possible 100-bed hospital in the Austin Convention Center. The site is not “currently functioning” but volunteers were given an estimated start date of mid-July, according to June emails sent to a member of the state’s disaster volunteer force and obtained by The Texas Tribune. READ MORE

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